Edexcel have released version 6 of their PLS for 2025 exams. You can find see the changes made since version 5 (2024) here. Nothing of significance has changed. Below is a summary of changes:
Page 5 – includes an example of how one and two dimensions are accessed in a list.
Page 8 – angled brackets added to “command” for consistency in IF structure.
Page 8 – angled brackets added to “structure” to replace “data structure” for consistency.
Page 10 – angled brackets added to “prompt” for consistency and text simplified for input () command.
Page 10 – clearer wording for print () command.
Page 12 – angled brackets added for every reference to “string” and clearer explanation of .isupper, .islower and .format
Page 14 – clearer explanations for math.ceil and math.floor – note the specificity of these when using negative numbers and how they differ to int () and the integer result from //
Page 15 – space added to become input () within “Add a line asking for keyboard input, such as input ()” for consistency.
Page 15 – space added before brackets to become “<window>.setup ()” for turtle.screen ()
Page 16 – “anticlockwise” changed to “counterclockwise” for <turtle>.left (<degrees>)
Page 16 – angled brackets added to “turtle” for <turtle>.showturtle ()
Page 16 – space added to become fill () within <turtle.end_fill> and full stop added to end of sentence.
Previous changes are shown below:
Edexcel PLS v5 (2024 exams) summary of changes
Edexcel have released version 5 of their PLS for 2024 exams. You can find see the changes made since version 5 (2023) here. Nothing of significance has changed. Below is a summary of changes:
Page 6 – “Logical operator” corrected to “Relational operator” in table.
Page 11 – brackets added to “0-9” and commas removed for .isalnum () and .isdigit ().
Page 12 – following my recommendation, a big revamp of the options for placeholders with a clearer table showing all options that could be used in an Edexcel exam.
Page 15 – removal of hex representation of colour for <turtle>.fillcolor (<color>)
Page 16 – removal of hex representation of colour for <turtle>.pencolor (<color>)
Page 17 – addition of “braces {}” in 3rd paragraph of “Line continuation”
Edexcel PLS v4 (2023 exams) summary of changes
Edexcel have released version 4 of their PLS for 2023 exams. You can find see the changes made since version 3 (2022) here. Nothing of significance has changed. Below is a summary of changes:
Page 7 – <stop> is required, <start> is optional added to for <id> in range
Page 7 – <stop> is required, <start> and <step> are optional added to for <id> in range . . . <step>
Page 9 – Bool, float, int and str added for completeness
Page 11 – detail regarding default values added to <string>.find and <string>.index